I think Continuity might be referring to The Batsman, a Cricket-themed villain from the Golden Age, who despite only committing minor crimes, continually evaded capture by that popular but unsuccessful Golden Age hero, The Bowler, until he reached a century and retired.

WAIT! There’s an easy solution. All they need are some chumps to do the same caper FOR THEM, then they take the proceeds for themselves. And where do they find these chumps? Well, send one of their team (guess who) out and about, to pick up COPY-CATS. Problem solved.

Is that how banking works in the USA? If there’s more than 1 bank in the settlement, they are named First, Second, Third, etc. National Bank? And how do they decide which is which? Are they named in order of age?

I once remember an episode of The Flinstones where there was a bank robber named Grandma Dynamite, who robbed the First, Second, Third, and Fourth National Banks. The Fifth was more trouble, due to her associating with a certain pair of dumb-dumbs…

You’d think that would be the case. Robbing banks is like the basic go-to plan for criminals that they repeatedly do all the time. Just about every time you turn around when criminals like the Wrecking Crew show up they’re robbing a bank or armored car, about the only ‘never repeat’ plans are things like ‘rule the city/country/world/universe’ ones where you only do each particular attempt just once.

You can repeat a target or a method, you just can’t repeat both the target /and/ the method: Say, if your last scheme was to rob banks using a hypnoray, tunneling into bank vaults with a drilling machine or robbing the research lab with the hypnoray are both acceptable followups.

I’m sure the union sees a lot of “this plan was totally different, we used a carnival theme and Bob had a flamethrower”, too.